Hi Michael, Wow, those Existentialist (even the forerunners) are dynamic characters. You certainly do present us with some radical individuals. I read the SEP article, and I am not sure what to think yet.
Your book is to be released soon. I am most curious. Marsha On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:14 AM, Michael R. Brown wrote: > Hi, all. > > The “nihilistic egoist” Max Stirner has some overlaps with Bob, I think. He’s > where the extremest development of Western philosophy touched the core of the > East. Nietzsche is small-fry next to mighty Stirner, as far as egoism goes. > Behold, from Wiki. > > - - - - - > > .....The Unique One [Der Einzige, the liberated egoistic individual] is the > straightforward, sincere, plain-phrase. It is the end point of our phrase > world, of this world in whose "beginning was the Word." — Max Stirner, > Stirner's Critics > > In order to understand this 'creative nothing', Stirner uses poetry and vivid > imagery. The 'creative nothing' by its dialectical shortcomings creates the > need for a description, for meaning. > > What Stirner says is a word, a thought, a concept; what he means is no word, > no thought, no concept. What he says is not what is meant, and what he means > is unsayable. — Max Stirner, Stirner's Critics > > Stirner elaborated this attempt to describe the indescribable in the essay > "Stirner's Critics", written by Stirner in response to Feuerbach and others > (in custom with the time, he refers to himself in the third person) : Stirner > speaks of the Unique and says immediately: Names name you not. He articulates > the word, so long as he calls it the Unique, but adds nonetheless that the > Unique is only a name. He thus means something different from what he says, > as perhaps someone who calls you Ludwig does not mean a Ludwig in general, > but means You, for which he has no word. (...) It is the end point of our > phrase world, of this world in whose "beginning was the Word." — Max Stirner, > Stirner's Critics > > The Ego and Its Own opens and closes with a quotation from Goethe that reads > "I have taken up my cause without foundation", with the unstated next line of > the poem being "…and all the world is mine". One of Stirner's central ideas > is that in realizing the self is "nothing" one is said to "own the world", > because as the book states in its last line: "all things are nothing to me" > [Ibidem., p. 324].David Leopold (in his introduction to the Cambridge > University Press Edition of The Ego and its own) expresses disbelief at what > Stirner has to say about the nature of mind, world, and property. Both the > belief in the self being "nothing" and that "the world is empty" have no > similar Western precedent. But in Eastern Philosophy Buddhism has comparable > aspects: > > By bringing the essence into prominence one degrades the hitherto > misapprehended appearance to a bare semblance, a deception. The essence of > the world, so attractive and splendid, is for him who looks to the bottom of > it — emptiness; emptiness is — world's essence (world's doings). ...." — Max > Stirner, The Ego and Its Own p. 40 > > ... [F]or 'being' is abstraction, as is even 'the I'. Only I am not > abstraction alone: I am all in all, consequently, even abstraction or > nothing: I am all and nothing; I am not a mere thought, but at the same time > I am full of thoughts, a thought-world. ...." — Max Stirner, The Ego and Its > Own p. 300 > > I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for > it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more > expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. > Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; > enough if you tear down yours. [...] He who overturns one of his limits may > have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits > remains their affair. ...." — Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own p. 127 > > Stirner describes this world-view, in brief, as "enjoyment", and he claims > that the "nothingness" of the non-self is "unutterable" (p. 314) or > "unnameable" (p. 132), "unspeakable" yet "a mere word" (p. 164; cf. Stirner's > comments on the Skeptic concepts ataraxia and aphasia, p. 26). > > - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_Max_Stirner > > - - - - - > > The unstoppable Phaedrus, and the not-so-Mr-Nice-Guy narrator, have some > Stirner-egoist traces, to be sure. Then came the opening out into connection > – which after all can be an “egoist” joy too. > > > MRB > http://www.fuguewriter.com > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html ___ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
